<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Books]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/stream/2c92f797-1a8c-4d1a-a087-acca9b562425</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:39:52 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ft.com/stream/2c92f797-1a8c-4d1a-a087-acca9b562425?format=rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[© Copyright The Financial Times Ltd 2025. "FT" and "Financial Times" are trademarks of the Financial Times. 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Now what?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mark Mazower on the long history and troubled present of the transatlantic relationship]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/4f11cdfb-ff57-49e4-a2af-f9fcaf278940</link><guid isPermaLink="false">4f11cdfb-ff57-49e4-a2af-f9fcaf278940</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The self-mythologising of Gertrude Stein]]></title><description><![CDATA[Artistic tastemaker extraordinaire or charlatan merely posing as a genius writer? For a biographer-detective, there is no more thrilling case]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/fe401944-3a2d-4e67-ac09-6a2603f3389c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fe401944-3a2d-4e67-ac09-6a2603f3389c</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Finding their religion: why Gen Z are turning to faith]]></title><description><![CDATA[As spiritual belief shows signs of a quiet revival in Britain, has Christianity regained the underground appeal of its earliest days? ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/94460660-1fe1-411b-8649-cc886742c410</link><guid isPermaLink="false">94460660-1fe1-411b-8649-cc886742c410</guid><pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best books of the week]]></title><description><![CDATA[Why Gen Z are seeing religion as a cool lifestyle choice; Saudi Arabia’s transformation into petrostate titan; how media aped pornography and demeaned women; the flight from the Nazis of Jewish intellectuals; a new biography of Muriel Spark; wistful short stories by DJ Taylor; posthumous works by Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz; a stirring Catalan novel of folklore and the supernatural; our selection of economics titles — plus Nilanjana Roy on reading in sync with the seasons]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/19b2cbcf-4db2-4f7c-ba36-94270de66989</link><guid isPermaLink="false">19b2cbcf-4db2-4f7c-ba36-94270de66989</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 11:40:44 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia: A Modern History — tradition versus modernity ]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Commins’ nuanced analysis of the kingdom’s transformation highlights the ongoing tensions that the monarchy needs to manage]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8c4c9672-8cfb-4dfc-b840-6de0af864dd8</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8c4c9672-8cfb-4dfc-b840-6de0af864dd8</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 11:00:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poppyland — DJ Taylor’s wistful short stories of lives lived in the margins]]></title><description><![CDATA[A new collection of tales by this prolific author deserves praise for evoking poignancy and beauty amid nostalgia and neglect ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ec1dba74-9ca7-401a-9897-f2a558b0468f</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ec1dba74-9ca7-401a-9897-f2a558b0468f</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl on Girl by Sophie Gilbert — pop culture’s era of unfiltered misogyny ]]></title><description><![CDATA[At the turn of the millennium TV, film and music aped pornography to pander to the male gaze. What were the creative industries thinking?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/da23ab70-1a22-46dd-a68b-1f9a8e0c7f74</link><guid isPermaLink="false">da23ab70-1a22-46dd-a68b-1f9a8e0c7f74</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 16:05:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness — dicing with the devil in deepest Catalonia]]></title><description><![CDATA[Irene Solà’s exhilarating novel mixes folklore, history and the supernatural in a heady brew]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7582bbda-aa46-4dae-9fe4-c7d26f68eb67</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7582bbda-aa46-4dae-9fe4-c7d26f68eb67</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 12:36:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Electric Spark — unpicking the enigma of Muriel Spark]]></title><description><![CDATA[A richly detailed biography tracks the puzzles, betrayals and much more that underpinned the writer’s fiction]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a3a20496-0f92-4b4c-9c9b-061fb9c99b78</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a3a20496-0f92-4b4c-9c9b-061fb9c99b78</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 04:00:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Found Myself . . . The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz — reveries from Cairo]]></title><description><![CDATA[A collection of fragmentary, bittersweet vignettes by the late Nobel laureate builds into a pattern, albeit an elusive one]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/5d841ad2-805b-4f4a-a379-c2bc31cdebcb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">5d841ad2-805b-4f4a-a379-c2bc31cdebcb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 11:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are you reading in sync with the changing seasons?]]></title><description><![CDATA[From summer hammock to winter fireside, books can chime with the seasonal rhythms lying dormant in our crowded lives]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/fa2d43b7-7b33-48e2-86ed-9f28746ab1eb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">fa2d43b7-7b33-48e2-86ed-9f28746ab1eb</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 04:00:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gen Z and the rise of bookshop bars]]></title><description><![CDATA[From BookTok cafés to dating events, from writing workshops to cocktail bars, here are some of the capital’s hotspots for bibliophiles]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/3e73641f-7c16-4c44-8047-c1f933255142</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3e73641f-7c16-4c44-8047-c1f933255142</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 04:00:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Marseille 1940 by Uwe Wittstock — Varian Fry’s mission to rescue Jewish intelligentsia]]></title><description><![CDATA[A meticulously researched story of the clandestine activities of the smugglers and escapers from Nazi-dominated Europe]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d01dc318-dd7b-4c98-baaf-644ed91dedca</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d01dc318-dd7b-4c98-baaf-644ed91dedca</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 04:00:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The latest economics books]]></title><description><![CDATA[Johan Norberg on what drove history’s influential civilisations; Ben Chu on the rise of zero-sum economic thinking; plus Germany’s decline and a must-read for monetary aficionados]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1ff86d7f-cd35-477e-9e79-878e662282f5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1ff86d7f-cd35-477e-9e79-878e662282f5</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 11:00:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[International Booker winners ‘happy Karnataka has won global attention’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Author Banu Mushtaq and translator Deepa Bhasthi on ‘Heart Lamp’, the first short-story collection to win the award]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b885d420-d4b2-4b52-98ad-6fa7972d0cc7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b885d420-d4b2-4b52-98ad-6fa7972d0cc7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2025 04:00:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way — a female gaze on an Irish family’s legacy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elaine Feeney’s unlikeable protagonist treads well-trodden literary ground — but what do her observations tell us?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/174b336c-a375-467f-9d1c-ec22b668bb1b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">174b336c-a375-467f-9d1c-ec22b668bb1b</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Business books: what to read this month]]></title><description><![CDATA[Careful listening, long-life companies and lessons from a social entrepreneur]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8b5e56c2-cb79-4000-a3eb-9913f759baf3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8b5e56c2-cb79-4000-a3eb-9913f759baf3</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 09:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Muckle Flugga — Michael Pedersen’s treasured island tale]]></title><description><![CDATA[Set in the Shetlands, the debut novel by the lauded Scottish poet showcases his linguistic adventurousness]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/50b70f76-1594-4c9e-b06a-d6a9a4289b71</link><guid isPermaLink="false">50b70f76-1594-4c9e-b06a-d6a9a4289b71</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 04:00:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Girl, 1983 by Linn Ullmann — illuminating the shadows of the past ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A woman looks back on her teenage ordeal at the hands of a Paris fashion photographer in a fictional reshaping of trauma]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f23efee5-3f63-4258-81fd-105eea86dcea</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f23efee5-3f63-4258-81fd-105eea86dcea</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 16:00:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Sam Altman is one of tech’s great survivors]]></title><description><![CDATA[Two timely and myth-busting books show that the AI boom is driven by the pursuit of power, wealth and hubris]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1721a7e3-8fd6-47e7-83ce-e9e34e1db6eb</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1721a7e3-8fd6-47e7-83ce-e9e34e1db6eb</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 11:00:24 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Illegals — the Russian spies operating in the west, against the west]]></title><description><![CDATA[Shaun Walker has unearthed eye-popping tales of spying by agents embedded in western societies under fake identities]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/782021e1-b4d6-4536-8bd8-08c6b2abeed5</link><guid isPermaLink="false">782021e1-b4d6-4536-8bd8-08c6b2abeed5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 16:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sceptred Isle — Helen Carr’s entertaining history of the later Plantagenet kings]]></title><description><![CDATA[An anecdotal and informative book about the tumultuous events of the 14th century that still resonate today]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/46daca50-2c04-4e6e-bcfc-55911d61dabe</link><guid isPermaLink="false">46daca50-2c04-4e6e-bcfc-55911d61dabe</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 13:01:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[FTAV’s further reading]]></title><description><![CDATA[Demonology; Cruise & McQuarrie; US trade deficit; AI slop snafu; oncology 101]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a6ec922a-d25d-485d-bc74-00e92d4d8b8b</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a6ec922a-d25d-485d-bc74-00e92d4d8b8b</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 05:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Banu Mushtaq and Deepa Bhasthi win the International Booker Prize for fiction in translation ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Heart Lamp, the first short-story collection to win the award, is also the first to have been translated from Kannada]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/8640e5d3-d5d3-40ee-801a-ffc4c170d538</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8640e5d3-d5d3-40ee-801a-ffc4c170d538</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 21:30:59 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>